Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- Introduction
  Overview of the categories covered in the Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- System Requirements
  Guidelines for the hardware and/or software environment necessary to run Typhoon HIL Control Center, for both PC and Test Server/Virtual Machine-based setups.
- Typhoon HIL Quick Start Guide
- Typhoon HIL Toolboxes
  List of the Toolbox Packages available in the Typhoon HIL software suite
- Connecting to your HIL device
  Guidelines on how to connect to a HIL device using either USB or Ethernet ports.
- Device Manager
  Device Manager is used to create, manipulate, and activate HIL device setups.
- Typhoon HIL Control Center
  This section provides a general description of Typhoon HIL Control Center and lists the main software components accessible from it, as well as additional software tools which can be invoked from its interface.
- Example Explorer
  General Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center Example Explorer.
- Signal Access Management
  This feature allows you to change the visibility of signals in Schematic Editor and HIL SCADA
- Schematic Editor
  Introduction to the Schematic Editor tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- Schematic Editor Component Libraries
  Detailed functionality and use of the pre-built Component Libraries in Schematic Editor
- Third-party integrations
  This section provides an overview of the key third party integrations within Typhoon HIL's toolchain.
- HIL SCADA
  Description of the HIL SCADA tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
  - Command Toolbar
    Description of the Command Toolbar in HIL SCADA
  - Library Explorer Dock
    This section describes library dock
  - Panel Explorer Dock
    This section describes panel explorer dock
  - Model Explorer
    This section describes the HIL SCADA Model Explorer.
  - Namespace Explorer
    This section describes Namespace Explorer
  - Model Settings Dock
    This section describes model settings dock
  - Panel Tabs
    This section describes panel tabs
  - Message Log Dock
    This section describes message log dock
  - History Dock
    This section describes history dock
  - Status Bar
    This section describes the status bar
  - HIL SCADA Widget Library
    This section provides an overview of Widget Library support in HIL SCADA.
  - HIL standalone boot configuration
    This section describes HIL standalone boot configuration
  - HIL SCADA Command-line Options
    This section describes options for starting HIL SCADA from command line
  - Standalone HIL SCADA
    This section briefly describes Standalone HIL SCADA tool
  - HIL SCADA External Mode
    Brief description of the External mode feature available in HIL SCADA
- Waveform Generator
  This section describes the waveform generator tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center.
- Test and Calibration Tool
  Description of the Test and Calibration tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- TyphoonTest IDE
  This section describes TyphoonTest IDE
- Signal Analyzer
  This section describes the Signal Analyzer tool.
- Lookup table extraction tool
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for extracting characteristics (lookup tables) from datasheet graphs and charts into a format that can be imported by non-linear models.
- Package Manager
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for creating and managing Typhoon packages that contain Schematic examples, Schematic and widget libraries, documentation etc.
- Usage Logging
  This section briefly describes Typhoon HIL software logging feature.
- Python Interpreters
  Overview of how you can use Typhoon HIL Python Interpreters to further customize your test files.

Standalone HIL SCADA

This section briefly describes Standalone HIL SCADA tool

The main purpose of Standalone HIL SCADA is to be used as a control and observation environment for hardware connected to a PC, using any available communications protocols (for instance, serial connection by using a special Serial connection widget) or user-specific python code.

Figure 1. Standalone HIL SCADA

Note: Standalone HIL SCADA can be used alongside regular HIL SCADA.

Note: Standalone HIL SCADA cannot be used for controlling HIL simulation.

To run HIL SCADA in Standalone mode, can use a shortcut located in the Windows Start Menu or start it from the command line:

usage: typhoon_hil sa_hs [--fullscreen] [--panel CUS_FILE] [--start]

optional arguments:
  --fullscreen      Run HIL SCADA tool in the full screen
  --panel CUS_FILE  Load specified HIL SCADA Panel file (*.cus)
  --start           Start simulation

The "sa_hs" option stands for "Standalone HIL SCADA".

If for some reason you don't have typhoon_hil in path by default, you can execute commands directly on the Typhoon HIL Control Center executable. For example:

C:\>cd "C:\Program Files\Typhoon HIL Control Center 2019.4\"
C:\Program Files\Typhoon HIL Control Center 2019.4>typhoon_hil.exe sa_hs <<commands>>

As explained above, Standalone HIL SCADA is a functional subset of regular HIL SACADA. Therefore, some functionalities and options (listed below) are not available:

Loading a compiled Model (.cpd files) is not available
Loading Model Settings (.runx files) is not available
Model settings control dock is not available
HIL API and Schematic Namespace are not pre-imported and available for use in the SCADA namespace
All Monitoring widgets only have the Expression data type available
The widgets listed below are not available in Standalone HIL SCADA:
1. Capture/Scope
2. Frequency Response
3. Stream Data Logger
4. PV Monitor